The shields protecting both Illias and Vivi created a protected shadow where the
rainbow slicers could not reach. In Vivis case it was the stairs behind her.

@noob
Yeah, incorrect number.

@all
I think far too people assume that people can think through what they are doing.
If a sword comes down on me, I would block it subconscicously and automatically
with everything I have at hand, be it a pineapple, a book, a Q-bomb or…a rainbow
knife.

Crap. Now they’re going to find the guards and the barkeep and make them into some kind of martyr and criminalize Viviane and all of Ileasaar. Just because neither of them thought to clean up the mess or hide the bodies.

Plot armor. The beams need to wait until the heroes are up, then
they crash down to literally bury the evidence (so the heroes get
more time) and give the weaker ones of us a heart attack:
“Oh my Gosh ! If Vivi and Illias haven’t climbed up at once, they
would be D-E-D”.

Is this really that much of a moral dilemma for her? I mean she was a their for a large portion of her life, meaning she probably at one point killed someone or at least tried to kill someone. Sure she accidentally killed the guy helping them but that’s the way it goes.

Is this really that much of a moral dilemma for her? I mean she was a their for a large portion of her life, meaning she probably at one point killed someone or at least tried to kill someone. Sure she accidentally killed the guy helping them but that’s the way it goes.

Why does is follow from being a thief that she would have killed someone at some point? Vivi’s shown a marked preference for escaping over fighting. Even here, the point was to get out and get away from the fight. The only time, in comic, that she’s actively attempted to harm anyone (as I recall) was when she went after Eldor.

Is this really that much of a moral dilemma for her? I mean she was a their for a large portion of her life, meaning she probably at one point killed someone or at least tried to kill someone. Sure she accidentally killed the guy helping them but that’s the way it goes.

She’s not on Earth. They don’t kill people that easily and shrug it off on Gaia. As a matter of fact most normal nineteen year olds on Earth don’t either.

And she has been member of a THIEFS guild, not assassins or or robbers …

Well. As a matter of fact she tried to kill Eldor, and did kill Silas (which she does not know yet). Look at BaB-108 to see her reaction to this.
Silas and Eldor were much more of a threat to her then those two guards, not even speaking of that unfortunate bartender.

Hmm, that doesn’t seem right. If the rainbow knife hitting the barrier from the inside is what triggered the backlash

I don’t think it is a physical barrier. She can touch them and they obviously can touch her. So barrier either stop excessive force, or magic. And I don’t think the knife is included into protection spell. So the point of impact is outside the barrier.

And since this were the last protections spells from Lilith, I suppose using the rainbow knife to make their way is not an option. Not that Vivi seems enthusiastic to kill more people.

Hmm. I love Viviana’s reaction to the rainbow streamers of death, excellently humanized. As for Ilias, I heartily approve. “Get to safety now, have heroic BSOD later.”
Also “Noooo, bartender guy! Your only crimes were a poor poker face and smuggling rose morels (that I know of). Why did you have to die? What? Interaction between protagonists and Drama? Well that excuses nothing, but explains everything. Carry on.”

Love the comic, love the cast, the setting, the whole shebang. I’d ask you to keep it up, but you don’t make this comic for me I just happens to enjoy it so instead, Keep doing what you love!

Knowing that Vivi will overcome this trial and be stronger for it fills you with DETERMINATION. (I hope)

I’m surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but it might not have anything to do with the personal protection spells at all. San said that Lili’s world-ending spell is going to make magic unpredictable the closer it gets. Since the rainbow knife is a magical object, it stands to reason that it going haywire has to do with the spell.

Damn, you are right.
I missed it that San said in Monster 018 that spells become
unpredictable. But how unpredictable can it get ?
Is it only in one way amplifying spells or can it go
the other way: the mighty spell goes *poof* ?

What I don’t understand is how you can put a sheath on the blade. if that is possible you almost want to parry with the sheath because its made of durable stuff and wont turn your opponents into “will it blend” contestants.

I’m wondering if this happened because of Lili’s protection spells. Viv was worried about the backlash from using the rainbow knife against a magical barrier. So what if the sequence of events was like this:

o Lili’s protection spell senses that Viv & Ilias are under attack and puts up magical barriers, just as
o Viv’s rainbow knife cuts the sword in two and then hits Viv’s magical barrier from the inside, triggering
o A magical backlash that shreds everything in the room outside Viv & Ilias’s protective barriers.

Hmm, that doesn’t seem right. If the rainbow knife hitting the barrier from the inside is what triggered the backlash, it should have gone back toward Viv, not out toward everything else. Perhaps this is just a random sort of thing that sometimes happens whenever you use a rainbow knife?

It triggered when the knife hit the sword.

Also, Lilith cast this spell well in advance. Considering that much of this story involves temporal magic, you have to wonder… did Lillith KNOW this might happen?